b'and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. Know why? Fiber-optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. . .You invested in a business. And that business is dead. Lets have the intelligence, lets have the decency, to sign a death certificate, collect the insurance and invest the money in something with a future. . .And, lest we forget, thats the only reason any of you became stuckholders [sic] in the first place. To make money. You dont care if they manufacture wire and cable, fry chicken, or grow tangerines. You want to make money. Im making you money. Im the only friend you got.And what if we do care about chicken or tangerines? Its interesting that the playwright, a former financier, used food and agriculture as examples of the most other he could muster. Its as if he recognized subliminally that the place where the reductionism of economic thinking is most egregious is in the commercialization and commodification of living things.The decision whether to sell, in the name of markets and economic efficiency, or to hold for the long term, in the name of community and place, is almost a struggle between mind and heart, but not quite. Mind keeps such a clamp on it that heart barely gets to stir. We live in an era that has been valuing selling over holding for a few centuries, and doing so in an accelerated, exaggerated form for the past few generations. 20'